Towerful Defense: A Rogue TD Reviews

Fun game!

No balancing

Well executed minimalistic autobattler/TD

A fine waste of time.

Really fun tower defense where you've just got one tower, The upgrades are varied and there's a lot of depth in the choices you make. The UI feels good, plays great on a steam deck, and the dev is super-responsive and is obviously passionate about the game. Well worth the price, and a no-brainer if it's on sale.

Found the choices, build variety and gameplay to be fairly shallow. This game has potential but this didn't quite hit Won't refund, the developer deserves the $, I'm excited to see what they make next

The game is frankly too small on screen. For most of a run, the game takes place in a tiny circle smaller than 1/4 the size of the screen. And even when I get A TON of stats devoted towards being able to see more? I can still see less than only a 1/3 of the screen. Its weird being forced to play while looking through a cardboard tube instead of just getting to see the game. Combined with the fact that there are TONS of unlocks that the game gives zero info on how to actually unlock, no thanks. Not for me.

There are some interesting ideas here. The game is kind of like a hybrid of Brotato and A Perfect Tower, where you spam skills during enemy waves. The bones are good, but Towerful Defense is in desperate need of a graphics overhaul, a thorough proofreading, and some personality As is stands now, the best thing I can say about the game is that, while I wasn't miserable playing it, it just makes me want to play Brotato

The dev really needs to take another look at balancing in this game. Looking at the list of stats, one would assume there are many possible viable builds. Unfortunately though, the only way to get through the higher difficulties is with one specific kind of build, that being one based on basic attacks. Start with the skill that just shoots out extra basic attacks and then stack attack speed, bullet damage, first skill cooldown, and target amount. This will always result in victory and no other build comes remotely close. One cannot successfully clear the game with a build focused on elemental attacks. You will always die from not having enough damage before getting to the point that you can really begin to scale the elemental damage. The main problem is there's no way to start with something that benefits a lot from elemental damage, save for the lightning skill. But that skill doesn't hit nearly often enough to make up for not scaling bullet damage. If it were possible to start with basic attacks having a significant chance to proc lightning, that would solve the issue. But there is no tower "class" that lets you do this. The closest one can get is a basic attack build that transitions to more elemental effects in the last couple waves, but that's just the same build with a hint of flavor. Melee based builds have a similar problem, though to a somewhat lesser extent. If you get lucky you can get a melee build going well enough to make it through, but it is far less consistent than just focusing on basic attacks. At first glance I expected this game to have replay value similar to that of Brotato. Unfortunately right now it's a poor imitation of a much better game. Setting up a basic attack build is fun the first couple times, but eventually you want to try something different, you know? But the game isn't set up to allow that. This game is worth about $3. If it goes on sale for that much or less, buy it. If not, you'd be much better off buying Brotato, Halls of Torment, Death Must Die, NIMRODS, etc.